| 2 | -- | 3 | Huadong Guo. Editorial |
| 4 | -- | 16 | Timothy W. Foresman. Evolution and implementation of the Digital Earth vision, technology and society |
| 17 | -- | 30 | Manfred Ehlers. Geoinformatics and digital earth initiatives: a German perspective |
| 31 | -- | 42 | Michael F. Goodchild. The use cases of digital earth |
| 43 | -- | 65 | Shupeng Chen, John van Genderen. Digital Earth in support of global change research |
| 66 | -- | 87 | Bruce Thompson, Tai O. Chan, Roland Slee, Peter Kinne, Anthony Jahshan, Peter Woodgate, Ian D. Bishop, Denise McKenzie. Virtual Australia: its key elements - know, think, communicate |
| 88 | -- | 106 | Armin Gruen. Reality-based generation of virtual environments for digital earth |
| 107 | -- | 118 | Florian Hruby, Andreas Riedl, Harald Tomberger. Virtual representations of antique globes - new ways of touching the untouchable |
| 119 | -- | 129 | Renchin Tsolmon, Lkhamjav Ochirkhuyag, Troy Sternberg. Monitoring the source of trans-national dust storms in north east Asia |
| 130 | -- | 147 | Brian Brisco, Ridha Touzi, Joost J. van der Sanden, François Charbonneau, Terry Pultz, Marc D'Iorio. Water resource applications with RADARSAT-2 - a preview |
| 148 | -- | 154 | J. Rodríguez Lloret, Nancy Omtzigt, Eric Koomen, F. S. de Blois. 3D visualisations in simulations of future land use: exploring the possibilities of new, standard visualisation tools |
| 155 | -- | 164 | Lena Halounová. Reclamation areas and their development studied by vegetation indices |
| 168 | -- | 170 | Timothy W. Foresman. Report on the 5th International Symposium on Digital Earth |